Swiss artist
Ferdinand Hodler, the painter of ecstasy

This content was published on January 3, 2018 4:06 PMJan 3, 2018 - 16:06

He's one of Switzerland's most famous 19th-century artists. Yet he's barely known to the general public in the US. Now the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is presenting Ferdinand Hodler to its visitors in Washington. In this video, curator Robyn Asleson talks about the element of ecstasy in Hodler's work. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)